Shipping-crate.



1. E. LOGAN.

SHIPPING CRATE, APPLICATFON man FEB. 1.6. 1914. RENEWED MAR. 2. 19:7.

magmas Y Patented June 26,1917,

INVENTORI @7272 ELqgazz ATTORNE Y.

N TED STATES PATENT orat on;

' JOHN E. LOGAN, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI;

SHIPPING-CRATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26,1917.

Appli oationfiled February 16, 1914, Serial No. 819,084. Renewed March 2, 1917. Serial No. 152,150.

To all whom it may 0mm:

Be it known that'I, Joan E. LOGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at KansasCity, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in shlpping- Crates, of which the following 18 a-specl cation.

My invention relates to improvements in shipping-crates, and my object is to produce a light, substantial and inexpensive crate which 'is well adapted for shipping eggs, vegetables, fruit and other produce b'y-parcel post, or express, without freezing or breakthe accompanying drawing, in which: v

Figure. 1 is .a perspective View of the crate in open positibnq v Fig. 2 is a-front elevation of the crate closed. 1

I V Fig. 3 is a detail perspective of .afaISe-Iid employed in carrying out the invention. 25-

Fig. 4 isa detail side elevation of a spring fastener employed in carrymg out the invention.

. In carrying out the invention, I form the 1 main body of the crate in two sections 1 and 2, connected by hinges 3, so that the crate may be closedvor readily opened.

Sections 1 and 2 are provided with'handles 4 and 4, whereby the crate can be readily carried when closed. The crate is. reliably secured in closed position by hasps 5 secured to section 1, staples 6 secured to seetion 2, and spring fasteners 7 adapted to pass through the staples 6 and lock the hasps thereto, as shown on Fig. 2.

Each spring fastener comprises-an Intermediate coil 7, and two arms 7 extending from said coil and curved at their outer terminals 7 to reliably engage the opposite sides of its respective staple. spring fastener thus constructed, 1t'1s practically impossible for it to become accidentally removed from its staple 6, but when it isdesired to open the crate the spring fastener can be quickly removed by pressing one arm 7 against the companion arm 7 and removing one of the terminals 7 from the staple by rocking the fastener on the opposite terminal 7.

- The upper surface of section 2 has a cardholder 8 to hold acard which may contain With the the address of the addressee on' one side and the address of the addressor on the opposite s1 e.

-9 designates two pairs of hooks secured to opposite sides of sections 1 and 2 to overlap the ends of two pairs of bow-springs' 10, secured by pivots 10"- to the intermediate por-' tions of two false-lids 11 which are cut out at 12, so that they may pass downward over the hooks 9, and also to permit the fingers to be inserted beneath said false-lids when it is desired to remove the same from the crate.

13 designates a plurality of cells in secdesired to ship other produce than eggs. In.

order to prevent breaking or freezing of the eggs, the walls of each cell 13 are heavily padded with felt l5 and .16, and the undersides of the false-lids 11 are lined with felt 11 to present a soft surface to the adjacent ends of the eggs. Space is left between the two false-lids 11 to give the false-lid which happens to be uppermost, room to spring downward'and thus relieve the eggs of any crushin strain to which they might be subjected s ould a heavy Weight be placed upon the crate and cause its upper side to spring downward.

The walls of the cells 13 are of such size as to relieve the eggs thereinof all strain irrespective of the position the case is placed in, and any weight placed upon the crate when in closed position is carried by the walls of sections 1 and 2 and not by the strips 14 constituting the cells, hence there is no danger of the eggs becoming crushed.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that I have produced a shipping crate possessing the advantages above enumerated, and while I have shown and described the preferred form of my invention,

-I of course, reserve the right to make such ent, is:

A shipping case comprising a pair of hingedly connected sections, intersecting strips forming the cells when the ends therestrips mounted in the sections and constiof are located in the cut-outs and engaged tuting cells, false lids for the sections havwith said hooks.

ing cut-outs formed in their side edges and In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 5 in registry with certain of the cells, hooks in the presence of two witnesses.

carried by the sections an overhanging the a cells with which the cut-outs register, and H LOGAN bow springs pivotally connected to the lids, Witnesses; said springs serving to hold the lids in yield- 7 F. G. FISCHER,

v I 10 ing engagement with the outer edges of the L. J. FISCHER. 

